1998-99 Program
All concerts take place at First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square. For information, contact The Spectrum Singers, P.O. Box 382325, Cambridge, MA 02238. Telephone (617) 492-8902.
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Fall 1998 Newsletter
A Spectrum Singers Christmas Celebration
Saturday, December 12, 1998 at 8:00 pm.
William Mathias
Wassail Carol, A Babe is Born
Zoltán Kodály
Veni, veni Emmanuel
William Walton
What Cheer?
Benjamin Britten
A Boy was Born, Three excerpts
Theme: A Boy was Born
Variation III: Jesu, as Thou are our Saviour
Variation V: In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Gustav Holst
This have I done for my true love, In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Healey Willan
Hodie, Christus natus est
Elizabeth Poston
Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Messe de Minuit pour Noël (ca 1690) with a consort of period instruments
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An American Sampler
The Sixth Annual Benefit for The Hospice of Cambridge
Saturday, March 27, 1999 at 8:00 pm.
Charles Fussell
Mists (1997)
Kurt Weill
Kiddush
Charles Ives
Down East, Sixty-seventh Psalm, Circus Band
Samuel Barber
To be sung on the Water, Reincarnations
Irving Fine
The Choral New Yorker
Norman Delo Joio
A Jubilant Song
Cole Porter
In the Still of the Night, arranged by R. Hunter
Ernst Bacon
Last Train, from A Tree on the Plains
Stevedore's Work Song
Ragged Levy, arranged by D. Morrow
African-American "Spirituals"
Deep River, arranged by Alice Parker/Robert Shaw
Ride the Chariot,arranged by William Henry Smith
Program notes Texts and translations
Mozart: Valedictory Masterworks
Saturday, May 22, 1999 at 8:00 pm.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K.V. 626
Ave verum corpus
with Luellen Best, soprano; Gloria Raymond, mezzo-soprano; Gerald Gray, tenor; Mark Risinger, bass-baritone; and orchestra..
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